Presented here is a practical tool called the Active Reading Document (ARD) that can give students the necessary incentive to engage with the text/readings. By designing the tool to incrementally develop student understanding of the material through reading using Marzano's Taxonomy as a framework, the ARD offers support through scaffolding as they…

As teachers struggle to balance the needs of their students with the requirements of commercial reading materials, educators need to consider how teachers will create space for children's literature in today's classrooms. In this article, 10 practical recommendations for incorporating children's literature in the reading instructional framework…

This paper explains the goals of Operation READS (Reading Embracing All Disciplines at Sewanhaka) in helping secondary school subject area teachers develop a favorable attitude toward reading. The program's primary student objective is the acquisition of basic textbook reading skills. Operation READS is an intensive, one week mobilization of all…

This paper focuses on the college's commitment to and responsibility for the attainment of the goals set forth by the National Right to Read Program. The goals of the Right to Read Program are: to disseminate information relative to reading, specifically, identifying and validating effective reading programs; to implement strategies for correcting…

Describes the contents of history and biology kits prepared by content area teachers for use in a college reading and study skills course. (TO)

This guide was prepared to assist the reading specialist or coordinator in the secondary school. The general objectives and rationale of the secondary reading program are given, along with the International Reading Association minimum standards for professional training of reading specialists. The overall structure of the reading program as an…

Bloom Township High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois, has set up a reading program which includes a reading clinic, a reading laboratory, and a program of Individually Prescribed Study (IPS). The IPS helps the students to master the reading skills necessary for his course work in content areas. Used in this program are various materials for…

This book reports the proceedings of the 1966 convention of the International Reading Association. It presents papers from that part of the convention concerned with the application of research results to classroom procedures and develops the following topics: elementary and secondary education, reading specialists, and the administrator's role in…

This International Reading Association publication presents a view of the problems of reading in the content fields as they relate to the secondary school curriculum. The first part deals with the beginning and the growth of a comprehensive reading program at the University of Chicago Laboratory School. Eleven of the school's faculty provide…

This International Reading Association publication presents a view of the problems of reading in the content fields as they relate to the secondary school curriculum. The first part deals with the beginning and the growth of a comprehensive reading program at the University of Chicago Laboratory School. Eleven of the school's faculty provide…

This anniversary edition of "Hooked on Books" adds new materials about the general educational context necessary for the success of the approach described in earlier editions. Discussions center on the difficulties of reading instruction, caused by the decreasing importance of reading in a television era; growth in the importance of peer teaching…

Notable reading projects funded under Title II are described in this report. The projects range from a bilingual program for Spanish-speaking pupils in eighteen schools in Washington, D.C., to the provision of relevant reading materials to neglected and delinquent youth in four special schools and correctional institutions in a California county.…

If for no other reason, junior high exists for the exceptional reading opportunity it provides; intensification and diversification of skills, some ease and stability in dealing with varying content structures, and enrichment of personal reading. The adolescent, at his peak period of personal reading, is still not fully determined as to his…